Guild Wars 2

Is there anyway we can get an increase on how many we can make of these a day?

As of right now it just seems like an unnecessarily strict 24 hour cooldown for one, and when you consider how much some of the items you can craft with them need them, it’s kind of frustrating to remember to grab the mats from your bank and find a hero point just for this one little daily cooldown.

Would also help having a higher limit or shorter cooldown for making the ley-line infused tools which wind up halting a lot of guilds’ upgrades that require 150+.

If the charged quartz crystals weren’t account-bound it might make it easy for a whole guild to collectively work towards charging them and giving them to their guild’s weaponsmiths but as it stand it’s pretty much an insanely long grind unless you all toss in a fortune and buy them off the trading post.

It’s a great way for weaponsmiths to make a quick 4 gold, but is that really worth it for the community as a whole?

It should not be a 24h cooldown but one the resets at the same time as other time gates. I don’t remember ever running an issue. Did you forget the reset time has changed due to DST?

I’m not sure if it’s still obtainable, but you have an unlockable skill point (krait obelisk) from LS1 I believe. If you’ve got other stuff in your Home Instance that you farm, might be worth looking into getting.

I just got a recipe for a krait rune thing? I’ll have to look into the obelisk.

And don’t all resets go on a 24 hour cooldown? Like the dailies and stuff?

If your feeling like spending some gold they occasionally drop from wintersday gifts.

The node for your home instance has a chance to give a charged quartz crystal. The chance is small but it helps if you need a lot of them. You can get the node from the laurel vendor.

The Skritt Queen has a Shiny node too. You can try to mine that. Charged crystal is possible.

The 24 hour thing serves to restrict the quantities and thus keep the price of the items it crafts high. That brings an occasional income boost to people like me. I make a charged crystal whenever I have enough crystals then I make a grow lamp when I accumulate ten of them. It feels like a reasonable and fair return for the time and patience so I’d be unhappy to see it changed. One person’s costs are another’s profits and the wheels of the economy keep turning.

Incidentally, there is a quick and easy hero commune point in front of the fort in Queensdale, WP is “scaver” something I think. It takes about 20 seconds plus loading time.

If you don’t have access to the krait obelisk in your home instance, the other easy commune point is the one in Durmand Priory HQ in Lornars Pass. Close to the WP, no enemies near, park an alt there with all your crstals in his inventory and commune everyday. Unfortunately Charge quartz is on of the many daily gated items, always has been and it’s a pain, but they are stockade after you’ve completed whatever asc piece you complete, you just have to remember to be in a position to stock up for next time.

Other sources:

• Wintersday Gifts drop charged quartz at a very, very low rate (something like 1-2 charged per 10 stacks).
• The Charged Quartz Crystal in your home instance will drop charged quartz, probably about 1/week.

When Celestial stats were introduced, there were some interesting reasons for gating charged production and account-binding the results. I would like ANet to revisit those reasons, since I believe that it’s no longer necessary to impose both limitations.

If you need the charged quartz for guild-hall stuff, have a look at your guilds veteran players. Some have quite a stack in their storage – just in case there would be finally something good to craft. In our guild we solved the entire arena this way. One person had like 50 charged quartz in his vault, rotting without notice. Talk to your people.

As for the hero-point the krait obelisk for the home instance is perfect for it. If you do not have it you can try
+ Durmand Priory [&BOkAAAA=]
+ Dolyak Hero Challenge [&BKkAAAA=] (the one south east)
+ Krait Hero Challenge [&BK4BAAA=]
Those three and probably some others, are easy to reach with a few steps and mostly no mobs block your path. And with a few steps I mean hardly 10 seconds.

When it comes to getting many charged quartz quickly, I would go for the gathering nodes. As the others already mentioned above, there is a small chance to get a free charged quartz out of regular mining. I would just take as many boosters I can get my hands on, to increase the chance.

If you are doing guildhall stuff and building things, you either started farming flax long ago or you are going to start it soon. One way the other, you log your “old” characters at least once a day to get a decent loot. So if you have your gather-only-characters, try to find a gathering banner. Usually you may see them near the home instance entrances of the cities or sometimes at Pagga’s Waypoint [&BKYCAAA=] (or close to the wood-farmspot). If you find one banner which improves gathering, ask a friend to camp next to it and make sure your gather-characters receive the buff. Depending on how many quartz nodes you are farming, one 30 min buff may last 1-3 weeks. I would also recommend to use a gathering-booster. And, if your guild already has, the 24h Guild Enhancement for critical crafting. You can get up to 50% and higher critical gathering chance, which might increase your luck of getting charged quartz as well. Positive side effect: If you use those characters for flax as well, you can get about 20-25 flax just from the spot in VB. Which already is one Vial of Linseed Oil. In order to save the buff-time, simply gather the quartz/flax and click on depoist. Later log your main-character and craft/fuse as you can.

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And, if your guild already has, the 24h Guild Enhancement for critical crafting. You can get up to 50% and higher critical gathering chance, which might increase your luck of getting charged quartz as well.

You probably want the gathering enhancement instead of the crafting enhancement …

Not sure if you realize this, but lay line tools are made by 400 weaponsmiths, not 500; so you could encourage (or even give material assistance) some guildies to level it up so you’re not reliant on just a few players.